Product Launch - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Apr 2022
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Home Grown

we first launched InMobi, it became the first company in the product space to essentially kind of, you know, go from east into the west. There’ve been numerous companies in the enterprise View Details

01 Jun 2004
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Alumni Clubs Click with New Web Services

The early reviews are in: It’s two thumbs way up for the new Web site building service now available to the School’s 107 alumni clubs and associations. Several features receive special praise from clubs that have already launched the new... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; alumni groups; website; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

technologically innovative company away from specialty glass, television tubes, and fiberglass production into newer, faster-growing profit-making areas. At the time, the economy is plagued by recession, worker morale is flagging, and the... View Details

01 Feb 2000
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Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story

Boston's Legal Sea Foods restaurant chain, where he met his future partner, Christopher Nessen. A production chef at the company, Nessen provided the culinary and technical expertise for Kettle Cuisine. He was well acquainted with the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

20 Dec 2018
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Baker Library Webinar Features Resources for Alumni

ahead of time by participants, Haley said the pair was able to run live searches based on their immediate research needs to demonstrate research tools. Alumni asked about specific topics, such as wanting to find statistics on the worldwide View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

19 May 2020
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Exploring the Economics of a Pandemic; Alumni Forums Draw Closer Online

Clubs News Clubs News Black Businesses Get Pandemic Survival Tips Via Webinar Series The HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA), in partnership with Steven Rogers (MBA 1985), the MBA Class of 1957 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration (emeritus), View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jan 2002
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Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)

Smith. Not only has Starbucks created a "third place" for the customer between work and home, but it has also launched a number of environmental and community-oriented initiatives. "We have a great culture in this company," Smith... View Details

01 Dec 2004
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Retirement's Changing Face

service that automatically kept track of addresses, travel plans, and important dates. Launched by Adams and Brian Robertson (MBA ’04), the company had grown to 45 employees and had over 2 million users by the time it was acquired by... View Details

Keywords: Personal Services

01 Jun 1998
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Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer

into a New England institution and one of the leading consumer banks in the nation. Responding to demographic trends and consumer demands in the mid-1970s, Crozier moved quickly to launch a ubiquitous network of automated teller machines... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Dec 2014
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Customizing Couture Online

pieces that really worked for a particular individual were limited,” says Magnúsdóttir, who also cofounded Moda Operandi, a “pretail” site giving customers first access to items straight from the runway. On the Tinker Tailor website, which View Details

Keywords: April White; fashion; Professional Services

26 Oct 2017
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Can Farming Save the Planet?

total organic product sales in 2015 were $43.3 billion, an increase of 11 percent from the previous year’s record level and far ahead of the overall food market’s growth rate of 3 percent. “We’re a little bit like the Uber of farming, in... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Organic farming; Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry; Agriculture

01 Mar 2006
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Academic Cross-Pollination

productively at the intersection of business, science, and technology. His second-year elective, Commercializing Science and High Technology, is designed to attract business, science, engineering, law, and medical students from across the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

05 May 2023
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Fail Better

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Every year, HBS selects a small handful of outstanding alums to receive its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. This year's recipients work in finance, politics, biopharma, and... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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A Force for Good

productive teamwork. Enhance creativity through more flexible organizational structures. Bet on people. Think big. Say no respectfully. McArthur liked to say that the faculty was the “whole ball game,” and in fact, he lavished time and... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing

01 Apr 2002
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Back on Course

Stephen Julius (MBA '88), who is English, and Stephen Heese (MBA '88), his Yank buddy, were classmates at HBS, divided by a common language perhaps, but united in their love of quality boats. Last year, the two men took the helm of Chris-Craft, the 128-year-old company... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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Yoga Inc.

amenities. (Bloomberg/Getty Images) “Yoga is at the core of our identity and culture,” Yeung continues. “It has kept us grounded in who we are as a company. It influences our brand strategy, the product categories we go after, and the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Halber

04 Sep 2019
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Deep Dive

Bill Gates, funded the Petrel, the most advanced vessel for finding and exploring deepwater shipwrecks; it rediscovered the USS Indianapolis in 2017. Last year, Cameron and Ray Dalio (MBA 1973) launched OceanX to fund oceanic research... View Details

Keywords: April White; photo by Jeff Wilson; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Sep 2008
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The Levitt Brand

the room, slaps down his papers, and fixes his audience with a piercing gaze before choosing one unfortunate soul: “Mr. Brown. Begin.” Startled, Mr. Brown launches into a halting rehash of the day’s assignment before he’s cut short with a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2016
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Starting Lineup: Upturning Travel

“discover, buy, and sell authentic tour experiences.” Zhang, the founder of travel firm WildChina which serves foreign visitors, launched NewUGo to connect the rapidly growing domestic Chinese travel market to off-the-beaten-path tourism... View Details

Keywords: April White

04 Feb 2008
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After Twenty Years, Rankings Remain Controversial

The School’s Centennial year just happens to coincide with another important anniversary, one many business schools would like to forget: the debut of BusinessWeek’s school rankings in 1988. Talk about disruptive. Up to that point, business schools built their... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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